Paneer curries are quite a fav with my kids.Last day when I made Paneer Butter masala for them,Surjeeth was planning a photo shoot with the curry..while my little one was all tears thinkin that my camera was going to gobble up the curry 😀
Well here’s the recipe
2oog of Paneer
4 big tomatoes
3 tsp ginger garlic paste
2 large onions chopped
25gms of cashewnut paste
3 green chillies (julian cut)
2tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
1tsp garam masala
4tbsp butter
1/2 tsp of Kasuri methi powder/dry fenugreek powdered
1/2 cup cream
2 tbsp curd
Salt as needed
- Boil the tomatoes with water and on cooling peel the skin of the tomatoes.
- In a mixer grind the tomatoes into fine paste.
- In a heavy bottomed pan pour butter and slightly fry and seperate the paneer cubes till golden.
- In the remaining butter saute the onions till brown.Now add in the ginger garlic paste and cashewnut paste and saute for a minute.
- When well sauted add in the tomato paste.When it starts simmering add in the chilli powder,garam masala and kasuri methi powder.
- When the flavour comes out and simmers well , add in the fresh cream.
- Switch off the flame and granish with freshly cut coriander leaves and butter.
Nimi Surendran Kolatte (formerly published as Nimi Sunil Kumar) is an award-winning cookbook author, culinary historian, and culinary demonstrator based in Kerala, India. Her work focuses on documenting traditional Indian foodways, with a special emphasis on Kerala cuisine, through books, research, cooking classes, and global culinary demonstrations.
Any paneer dish is my favorite n this one is super favorite..looks great with very tempting pics..YUM!!
US Masala
Looks delicious and love the pics
Drool worthy paneer butter masala. Its one of my most favorite dishes:)
First click is awesome 🙂
Paneer butter masala makes me hungry, thats sooo vibrant and catchy..
superb!! luv to have ths at any time f the day…
Lovely recipe dear!
Woww.. looks so delicious and perfect…
Indian Cuisine
The gravy looks completely creamy and rich and of course yummy. I'd like to have this wonderful paneer for breakfast.